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Specification Point 2.59 - Describe the composition of the blood: red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma.
Specification Point 2.60 - Understand the role of plasma in the transport of carbon dioxide, digested food, urea, hormones and heat energy.
Specification Point 2.61 - Understand how adaptations of red blood cells make them suitable for the transport of oxygen, including shape, the absence of a nucleus and the presence of haemoglobin.
Specification Point 2.62 - Understand how the immune system responds to disease using white blood cells, illustrated by phagocytes ingesting pathogens and lymphocytes releasing antibodies specific to the pathogen.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lessons are available.
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Specification Point 2.63B - Understand how vaccination results in the manufacture of memory cells, which enable future antibody production to the pathogen to occur sooner, faster and in greater quantity.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lessons are available.
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Specification Point 2.14B - Practical: Investigate how enzyme activity can be affected by changes in pH.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Lessons are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 8 - Enzymes and pH. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 2.14B - Practical: Investigate how enzyme activity can be affected by changes in pH.
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Specification Point 2.15 - Understand the processes of diffusion, osmosis and active transport by which substances move into and out of cells.
Specification Point 2.16 - Understand how factors affect the rate of movement of substances into and out of cells, including the effects of surface area to volume ratio, distance, temperature and concentration gradient.
Specification Point 2.17 - Practical: Investigate diffusion and osmosis using living and non-living systems.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Lessons are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 4 - Cell Differentiation. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
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Specification Point 2.5B - Explain the importance of cell differentiation in the development of specialised cells.
Specification Point 2.6B - Understand the advantages and disadvantages of using stem cells in medicine.
Complete set of Chapter 1 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 6 - Food Tests. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 2.9 - Practical: Investigate food samples for the presence of glucose, starch, protein and fat.
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Specification Point 2.7 - Identify the chemical elements present in carbohydrates, proteins and lipids.
Specification Point 2.8 - Describe the structure of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids as large molecules made up from smaller basic units.
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Specification Point 4.2.1 - Principles of organisation.
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Specification Point 4.1.3.1 - Diffusion.
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Specification Point 4.2.2.1: The human digestive system.
Practical 5 - Measuring the effect of pH on the rate of activity of amylase enzyme.
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Specification Point 4.2.2.1: The human digestive system.
Practical 4 - Conduct qualitative chemical tests for starch, reducing sugars, proteins, and lipids.
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Specification Point 4.2.2.2 - The heart and blood vessels.
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Specification Point 4.10 - Describe the stages in the carbon cycle, including respiration, photosynthesis, decomposition and combustion.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Lessons are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 62 - Cloning. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 5.17B - Describe the process of micropropagation (tissue culture) in which explants are grown in vitro.
Specification Point 5.18B - Understand how micropropagation can be used to produce commercial quantities of genetically identical plants with desirable characteristics.
Specification Point 5.19B - Describe the stages in the production of cloned mammals involving the introduction of a diploid nucleus from a mature cell into an enucleated egg cell, illustrated by Dolly the sheep.
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Specification Point 5.12 - Understand how restriction enzymes are used to cut DNA at specific sites and ligase enzymes are used to join pieces of DNA together.
Specification Point 5.13 - Understand how plasmids and viruses can act as vectors, which take up pieces of DNA, and then insert this recombinant DNA into other cells.
Specification Point 5.14 - Understand how large amounts of human insulin can be manufactured from genetically modified bacteria that are grown in a fermenter.
Specification Point 5.15 - Understand how genetically modified plants can be used to improve food production.
Specification Point 5.16 - Understand that the term transgenic means the transfer of genetic material from one species to a different species.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lessons are available.
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Specification Point 5.10 - Understand how selective breeding can develop plants with desired characteristics.
Specification Point 5.11 - Understand how selective breeding can develop animals with desired characteristics.
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Specification Point 5.9B - Understand the methods used to farm large numbers of fish to provide a source of protein, including maintaining water quality, controlling intraspecific and interspecific predation, controlling disease, removing waste products, controlling the quality and frequency of feeding, and selective breeding.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lessons are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Biology Lecture 55 - Pollution and Global Warming. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 4.12 -Understand the biological consequences of pollution of air by sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide.
Specification Point 4.13 - Understand that water vapour, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane and CFCs are greenhouse gases.
Specification Point 4.14 - Understand how human activities contribute to greenhouse gases.
Specification Point 4.15- Understand how an increase in greenhouse gases results in an enhanced greenhouse effect and that this may lead to global warming and its consequences.
Specification Point 4.16 - Understand the biological consequences of pollution of water by sewage.
Specification Point 4.17 - Understand the biological consequences of eutrophication caused by leached minerals from fertilizer.
Complete set of Chapter 6 Worksheets are available.